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As a new federal administration prepares to assume control, the GovAI Coalition Summit showed the local promise of artificial intelligence, from solutions available to the leaders ready to make them work. -
While cybersecurity remains a high priority for many CIOs, we spoke to technology leaders to understand what other skills are difficult to find when recruiting new talent.
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In addition to upskilling and transforming their workforce, IT leaders in government are investing in enterprise technology that can scale for the future.
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A handful of tech-related bills are being reviewed at the Capitol as lawmakers return from summer recess. The legislation will have to clear fiscal committees in both houses by Aug. 12 to stand a chance of becoming law this session.
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Nichols, who has served as the deputy state CIO and CDT’s chief deputy director since March 2021, will be stepping down from his role in state government later this year, a department spokesperson confirmed.
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Witnesses testifying in a recent congressional hearing said domestic sources are playing a strong role in driving online falsehoods that undermine faith in elections and inspire real-world violent attacks.
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Across the United States, many local governments and states — as well as private companies — are discovering their cyber insurance premiums have skyrocketed and that they must meet stricter guidelines
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An unemployment system dating back to the 1990s, coupled with procedural failings and a surging jobless rate in the spring and summer of 2020, is behind the latest critical audit of the Oregon Employment Department.
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Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies have used third-party data brokers as a way to conduct broad surveillance without warrants or subpoenas. A federal privacy law could force a change in tactics.
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The threat is fast, frequent and international. Keeping up may take stronger cross-border public-private partnerships, improved reporting rules, a higher national cybersecurity baseline and cryptocurrency payment disruptions.
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Last week the California Fair Political Practices Commission passed a resolution allowing cryptocurrencies to be used as donations for political campaigns. The move reverses its earlier decision to ban digital currencies.
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Snyder, who was Michigan’s governor for eight years, brought on his former state CIO to start a cybersecurity company focused on small and medium-sized organizations. Its offerings include a “personalized concierge.”
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The American Data Privacy and Protection Act would create the first nationwide privacy rules for technology companies and others, but a new federal law would supersede the California law passed by voters in 2020.
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A recent audit of Empire State Development's (ESD) New NY Broadband Program by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli found that the program had fallen short of its mission due to “poor planning and execution.”
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Attackers who penetrate an organization can evade detection by using the victims’ own cloud-based services to conduct their data exfiltration and malware downloads. This is the latest evolution of living off the land attacks.
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The Department of Health and Human Resources and the Department of Motor Vehicles were among the state government agencies affected by the system outage. Issues with the mainframe began Tuesday.
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A lawsuit has been filed against California Attorney General Rob Bonta as a result of the June exposure of a trove of personal data housed in the Department of Justice’s Firearms Dashboard Portal.
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Candidates running for Secretary of State in Washington state have said that they're most concerned about cybersecurity threats posed by other countries, online misinformation and election audits.
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The state is set to receive $110 million in federal funds to expand high-speed Internet access to about 22,000 families and businesses in rural parts of the state. The money comes from the American Rescue Plan.
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The California Attorney General's Office confirmed Thursday that the OpenJustice web portal remains offline after a trove of personal data related to concealed weapons applicants was exposed in late June.
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The Cyber Safety Review Board details 19 steps for public and private sector to improve the software security landscape and reduce risks from the Log4j vulnerability, something likely to trouble organizations for a decade or more.
